Biocomputing, Basel University
Teleteaching 1994, 2nd Course
ANNOUNCEMENT: WWW INTRODUCTION
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This is an announcement of a series of postings starting October 10, 1994,
on the newsgroup bionet.software.www in order to provide an introduction
to the WorldWideWeb (WWW) project. The goal is to answer the very basic
questions as what is the World-Wide Web, what is availble on the Web, what
software is required to access the Web, and how to get and install the
software. It is, in this course, not intended to guide people who want to
provide information to the Web. A separate course/topic discussion early
next year will be targeted to information providers, however,this requires
that the client software is properly preinstalled, as the Web will be used
for explanations. Details on that series will be announced in early 1995.
The postings of this second teleteaching '94 project "WWW introduction"
are aimed to biologists who have access to the Internet and are interested
in obtaining and setting up the programs needed to access the Web.Previous
experience with network retrieval tools are not essential but knowledge in
the use of FTP is advantageous.
Anyone who is interested in receiving these introductionary postings but
cannot read the newsgroup bionet.software.www can subscribe to the BIOSCI
email service as described in the appendix.
The newsgroup bionet.software.www is also accessible in a marked-up ar-
chive at
<a href=http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/info.html> EMBnet Switzerland </a>
which might be of interest to those who did already successfully implement
a suitable browser.
This WWW introduction course will be based on the updated version of the
WWW introduction teleteaching project which was contributed by our site by
myself in January 1994.
Florian Eggenberger
EMBnet Switzerland
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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EMBnet Switzerland is a project funded by the University of Basel, the
Swiss National Science Foundation, and industrial contributions from Di-
gital Equipment and Silicon Graphics (in alphabetical order). Information
on services for Switzerland available by email from: info at ch.embnet.org
APPENDIX
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The BIO-WWW/bionet.software.www Newsgroup
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Availability on the network (specifically, World Wide Web):
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bionet.software.www is archived, as all bionet newgroups, at the
net.bio.net FTP site, and available to be used like any other
bionet newsgroup (see explanations below). The bionet.software.www
newsgroup, additionally, keys contributions in 'html' documents so
that links are readily resolved in the 'hypertext' system, and may
point to the contribution of the originator, or the subject of the
message, respectively. This server runs at the Biocomputing Faci-
lity of Basel University. The following is the
<a href="http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/info.html> URL </a>.
To access the information provided by this and remote WWW sites you
need a program (called WWW client or browser) that allows to com-
municate with the remote WWW server. The browser may either be lo-
cally installed or on a remote computer. If you are directly con-
nected to the Internet it is recommended to install the client
software locally.The disadvantage of accessing the Web by a remote-
ly running client is a lack of full functionality and poorer per-
formance.
Subscribing to the bionet.software.www group:
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IF YOU USE USENET NEWS: you need do nothing other than participate in
bionet.software.www when it appears in your newsreader. Depending upon your
news software, this may entail you having to answer a prompt indicating that
you want to subscribe. You might also try the command "g bionet.software.www"
in rn-like newsreaders.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA:
please send the word
help
in the body of your message to MXT at dl.ac.uk to retrieve general server usage
instructions. To subscribe to the BIO-WWW list, first be sure that you are
sending mail from the address at which you wish to receive news postings,
and then send the command
SUB bionet-news.bionet.software.www
to MXT at dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and
your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and added to the
list.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM:
log in to the computer account in which you would like to receive mail
(not an account that you use infrequently) and send a mail message to the
Internet address
biosci-server at net.bio.net
Leave the Subject: line of the message blank and enter the following line
into the body of the mail message:
subscribe bio-www
This message will be automatically read by our computer and your e-mail address
will be extracted from the mail header and added to the list.
Canceling your subscription:
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IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: first be
sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you signed up to
receive news postings, and then send the command (in the body of your mail
message)
UNSUB bionet-news.bionet.software.www
to MXT at dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the computer and
your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header and removed from the
list.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: send a
message to biosci-server at net.bio.net exactly as described above for subscribing
except include the text
unsubscribe bio-www
in the body of the message. Please be sure to send the message from the account
whose address matches the one on the list. If your address differs, we will
be notified automatically and will remove you manually from the list if we
can determine what was your old address. Please contact
biosci-help at net.bio.net if you have problems.
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| F. Eggenberger, Ph.D. | eggenber at comp.bioz.unibas.ch |
| Biocomputing | eggenberger1 at ubaclu.unibas.ch |
| University of Basel | Fax +41 / 61 267 20 78 |
| Switzerland | Tel +41 / 61 267 22 47 |
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